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Q. WHY WOULD YOU WANT | A. THE REASONS ARE MANY!Click on each underlined item to read more:
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| Sound Feet, Sound Minds "Mother Nature Breeds A better Horse"  Wells Fargo Bank uses three mustangs in their stable of horses to pull their famous stagecoaches! They appreciate the mustang's soundness, never needing shoes, and their quiet minds. | Experienced horse people like mustangs because of their sound feet and sane minds. Horses on the range, growing up in a functioning natural herd structure, are socialized in a way that few domestics can even come close to. They know their manners! They know where their feet are. They are masters of body language communication. They respect their leaders. They are wise and sure-footed in uneven terrain. And they know the difference between a mountain lion and a piece of debris in the wind. They don't waste calories, tending to be less "flighty" than domestics, and thus have incredible endurance.
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 | Char Antuzzi competes each year in the Tevis Cup Endurance Ride, riding a mustang named Sir Galahad who was rounded up with other wild mustangs by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. "I like the mustangs because to me, the day they are born they do an endurance ride," Antuzzi said. Many horseback riders pick Arabians because they are born in the desert, but mustangs have survival skills that allow them to expend the least amount of energy possible and stay alive, Antuzzi said. | |||||
| "Because they always have a reserve, they'll never run themselves into the ground," Antuzzi said. They can also recognize danger faster than many other horses, she said. On one trail ride, Sir Galahad stopped, his ears perked up and he started quivering. Antuzzi did not understand why he would not go anywhere until she saw what lay in their path. "Around the bend there was a pack of coyotes," Antuzzi said. "And the horse behind me was clueless." These equines stay aware of the dangers in the wild and sustain themselves water hole to water hole, she said. Nine-year-old Sir Galahad has covered 1,000 endurance miles, finishing 15 minutes past the cutoff two years ago and earned his buckle last year. Riders earn a Tevis Cup buckle if they complete 100 miles in the time allotted. "Mustangs are consistent," Antuzzi said. "They don't go fast, but they trot up a hill, down a hill, over logs, through creeks. They just maintain this forward momentum." by Tanya Roscorla, who can be reached at tanyar@goldcountrymedia.com. http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2006/08/01/news/top_stories/03tevis1.txt | ||||||
 The US Marine Corps Color Guard uses palomino mustangs exclusively |  | |||||
| Genetic Vigor Contrary to the commonly held opinion that mustangs are inbred, Mustangs actually enjoy the highest level of genetic health of all horses. This could change in the future, but for now, however, this is the case. The Mustang gene pools are healthy and vigorous, with excellent genetic variability. No HYPP here. No Doc-O-Lena Disease. |
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| Good Health, Easy Keepers Range-hardened mustangs are tough and inclined to good health. Countless adopters can relate tales of mustangs surviving terrible injuries and illnesses that would surely have killed the average horse within a short time. Due to hundred of years living in harsh conditions, they are "easy keepers" - seldom requiring expensive supplements or rich feeds. Living on the range, mustangs have learned, generation after generation, not to waste calories. In this way, they tend to be level-headed, calm, easy-going animals - not the skittish, flighty creatures often conjured up by the word "wild."
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Adventure & Personal Growth & Satisfaction Jacqui Crews of Virginia, with one of her mustangs
| Many people, like myself, find that the experience of earning a wild horse's trust, and then training it to become a wonderful saddle horse is an exciting and meaningful experience that enriches their lives tremendously. | |||||
| Low Entry Price to Horse Ownership You can't beat the price! (starting at $125) But BEWARE! That's barely even the deposit, let alone the down payment, when you consider everything you will need to put out over the years for feed, housing, fencing, training, veterinary care, hoof trimming, tack and equipment, etc. If price is the main attraction, think hard about whether or not you can actually afford a horse. On the other hand, the low price is not necessarily a bad thing! Since I was not already a "horse person" when we got our first mustangs, and not at all in a mindset to pay thousands of dollars for a horse, it is unlikely we would ever have adopted in the first place - and certainly we would not have gotten as many as we now have - had the price been higher. Of course, once we got them home, we fell in love and are deeply committed to providing the best feed and care and training for them. Many people report that the low price originally attracted them to mustangs, but what really hooked them was how great the horses turned out! Historical Connection - Living Legends Many people find a thrill in owning "a Piece of History," "A Living Legend." From the Spanish Conquistadores, through the Great Native American Horsemen, explorers like Lewis & Clark, Mountain Men, pioneers, homesteaders, ranchers, "Buckaroo" and "Vaquero" cattlemen, and the Military Remount Program, as well as the Dust Bowl-Depression Era tragedies, and the coming of the tractor, with its concurrent decline in horse-ownership during the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's - IT'S ALL THERE - coursing through the blood of America's wild horses. NEXT: Click here for Owning a mustang is truly a link to History! Use the following links to explore wild horse adoption topics: Use the "Gallery of HMA's" to see the types of horses that are produced in each HMA, grouped by state and BLM district. Adopters are encouraged to submit their own pictures, to add to this information base. | ||||||
